How to Use gauzy in a Sentence

gauzy

adjective

• I have only a gauzy recollection of those long-ago events.
• Shirt, about $201, scottfrasercollection.com; A gauzy knit will keep things breezy.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 21 May 2019
• The waltz-like music in the second was as a gauzy dream.
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 1 Apr. 2018
• Behind a gauzy scrim on the other side of the stage is a white wall.
  — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 24 May 2017
• On the road above Pinerolo, the light is soft and gauzy, as though diffused by a piece of tulle.
  — Saveur, 16 Dec. 2019
• Here the female half of the couple is swathed in an immense gauzy white veil.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2019
• The actress's wavy hair grazes the table, framing a gauzy pink dress.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 8 Dec. 2018
• The overcast sky was gauzy, like one of his gunpowder drawings from the 1960s.
  — Mark Rozzo, Vanities, 30 May 2018
• But the film is a hazy, gauzy dream with few words, drawing a tale of love and loss with a few tears, pretty dresses and spilled wine.
  — Rhonda Richford, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2018
• The lion approaches my tent and moans on the opposite side of a gauzy screen, 10 feet from my head.
  — Ken Geiger, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• Agrawal had on a glittering hat, a bright pink wig, and a gauzy white cape that she’d worn at her wedding.
  — Eliza Brooke, Glamour, 4 Apr. 2019
• Their photos come in stark black-and-white, gauzy color and every shade in between.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
• The interiors are gauzy and elegant, full of massive green plants, and the whole place feels like a breath of fresh air.
  — Sarah Treleaven, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2017
• For the first Democratic debate, Williamson wore a gauzy Armani blouse.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2019
• Jupiter’s clouds have a stormy, gauzy quality, like cream swirling in the largest imaginable cup of coffee.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 21 May 2018
• With its belted waist and tiers of tulle, the gauzy navy and cream number from Maria Grazia Chiuri’s Spring 2019 runway was refined.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2019
• The next layer could be a translucent or gauzy fabric or lightweight linen for a breezy sheer touch, or slatted blinds.
  — Jennifer Adams, Philly.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• The window seat stayed unoccupied for a while, and her hopes rose when a man with a clipboard boarded the plane, his hair gauzy with dew.
  — Anne Enright, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2019
• The precise number of people who gained insurance is a bit gauzy.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2017
• Baby legs kicking in the aisle of an airplane, his head and my tits hidden under a gauzy blanket.
  — Meaghan O'Connell, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018
• And Antwi is also the subject of The Spectrum's penultimate track, a gauzy, pristine tribute.
  — Elias Leight, Billboard, 25 July 2017
• In the theme from Sabrina, the 1995 remake of the Billy Wilder film, the atmosphere lifted off into a gauzy waltz of longing.
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• The artists cut the gauzy fabric and spray painted it a rainbow selection of hues before stringing each cut-out across the courtyard of the ruin.
  — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 27 July 2018
• The set consisted of hundreds of yards of gauzy fabrics in every imaginable hue of blue.
  — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 5 July 2018
• Lana Del Rey Del Rey has always been a bit of a mystery, a gauzy pop star who defies definition.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2018
• The restaurant at the corner of Polk and Nagle beckons with large windows shaded with gauzy café curtains and a neon sign in yellow script.
  — Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle, 12 Dec. 2017
• Olivia and Fitz enjoyed one last gauzy frolic in 600-thread-count sheets, and appeared ready to ride off into the sunset together.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 20 Apr. 2018
• In the middle of all this neon, gauzy posturing, something real has happened.
  — Rachel Syme, New Republic, 30 June 2017
• Her suggestions are rather gauzy in the face of a new wing of America’s left that no longer esteems freedom of speech as a value worth fighting for.
  — The Economist, 14 Oct. 2017
• Which brings us to the obvious but important detail that one of Biden’s main selling points is a gauzy nostalgia for the Obama era.
  — Ted Scheinman, The New Republic, 5 Sep. 2019

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